The seemingly never-ending story
| Episode of the series The Simpsons | |
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| title | The seemingly never-ending story |
| Original title | The Seemingly Never-Ending Story |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| length | approx. 22 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| classification | Season 17, episode 13 369th episode overall ( list ) |
| First broadcast | March 12, 2006 on FOX |
| German-language first broadcast |
January 28, 2007 on ProSieben |
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| Director | Raymond Persi |
| script | Ian Maxtone-Graham |
| music | Alf Clausen |
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The seemingly never -ending story (English. The Seemingly Never-Ending Story ) is an episode of the American television series The Simpsons . It was produced as the 369th episode of the series and first aired in the United States on March 12, 2006. The script adapts very freely the literary model of the neverending story by Michael Ende from 1979.
For Outstanding Cartoon Show (less than an hour) , the episode was awarded a Creative Arts Emmy at the 2006 Primetime Emmy Awards. Eight other episodes in the series had previously been rated this way. The guest star of the episode was the Canadian actor and voice actor Maurice LaMarche .
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While visiting a cave together, Homer begins to play around with a very fragile stalactite . It ends with the entire Simpson family ending up in a secret cave chamber off the guided tour and Homer being stuck upside down in a narrow hole. When they discover that the chamber is not shown on any map of the cave, Marge and Bart set off to find the exit. Because Homer is afraid of being left alone in his predicament, Lisa stays with him. To pass the time, she begins to tell a story.
Lisa reports on an event from the previous week. On the way home from school, she was suddenly attacked by a billy goat with large horns. For protection, she ran to the nearest house, Mr. Burns's . When the animal entered through the window, Mr. Burns and Lisa holed up in the attic of the house. There Lisa came across a photograph of Mr. Burns as an employee in Moe's tavern. Mr. Burns begins to tell how the recording came about.
Mr. Burns explains that he was once challenged to a scavenger hunt by the wealthy Texan . The winner of the game should receive all of the loser's possessions. Mr. Burns lost because he failed to get the last item on the list - a picture of himself with a smiling child. Every child was afraid of him. Mr. Burns then had to work as a waiter for Moe. One day he found a letter there that stated that it could not be opened until after Moe's death. The letter leads on to Moe's story of a hidden treasure.
Apparently Mrs. Krabappel and Moe had an affair a year before she started teaching at the Springfield school. Moe did not tell his lover that he owned a bar because she hated people like that. Fearing that Edna might find out the truth about him, Moe decided to leave the city with her. But he didn't have the money to do this. Then he found out that Snake - at that time still an idealistic archaeologist - had discovered a coin treasure from the time of the Maya , which was to be donated to the museum as a foundation. Moe stole the treasure from him, throwing Snake completely out of his flawless career; therefore he is now a felon . When Moe and Edna left and she only had to quit her job at school, she found Bart there. He explained to her that he had been detained there for the whole summer and that he felt a hopeless case because nobody believed in him anymore. Mrs. Krabappel promised to help him as his class teacher in the coming school year in reaching the class goal. It later emerges that Bart's story was just a red herring. In reality, he and his friend Nelson only wanted to steal microscopes and computers at school. When Mrs. Krabappel informs Moe of her decision, he gets furious and insults her, and finally goes to his tavern. Completely depressed, Moe throws a few of the valuable coins into the jukebox and keeps listening to his and Edna's common song.
From the letter, Mr. Burns found out about the coins, took them out of the jukebox and gave them to the wealthy Texan to buy back his lost property, but the Texan insisted that Mr. Burns must bring the photo with a laughing child, before he got his nuclear power plant back. The Texan justified this with an obsessive-compulsive disorder that forced him to finish the scavenger hunt.
At this point in Mr. Burns' tale, the billy goat breaks into the attic. Mr. Burns stands protectively in front of Lisa and is injured in the process. It turns out that the animal did not want to kill them at all, but only brought back Lisa's pearl necklace, which it had found on a tree. In gratitude that Mr. Burns tried to save her, Lisa shoots a photo of him and her, which shows them smiling.
At that moment Homer breaks out of the rock hole and now admits that he had an ulterior motive on the family trip to the cave. Now he begins to tell a story of how he hid in the forest to avoid babysitting, while watching the wealthy Texan who buried the gold coins in the cave. Now he wanted to look for the coin treasure with his family. At that moment the rich Texan appears and they find the gold again. In time, Moe appears in the cave, as well as Mr. Burns, who was hiding behind a stalactite the whole time, and finally Snake. All four (with Homer five) men end in a Mexican tie . Eventually Marge takes the sack of coins and threatens to throw it into a deep crevice if the men don't stop. When she realizes the five's greed, she drops the sack. At that moment, everyone involved realizes how greedy they were and headed down on their way outside; with the exception of Mr. Burns, who is trying to climb down to the gold coins.
Suddenly it turns out that the whole episode was actually told by Bart to justify to Headmaster Skinner why he didn't have time to prepare for a geography test. However, the headmaster finds the story ridiculous - until he sees Moe and Edna kissing each other outside the window, as if they were lovers again. The story ends with a scornful remark by the rich Texan about Moe's sexual problems.
Awards
- 2006 : Creative Arts Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) for Best Outstanding Cartoon Show (less than an hour )