"Simpsons Tall Tales" is the season finale and twenty-first episode of the twelfth season of The Simpsons. It aired on May 20, 2001.
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. They are as follows:
Homer plays Paul Bunyan, a great burden on local townspeople, as he crushes th...
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"Simpsons Tall Tales" is the season finale and twenty-first episode of the twelfth season of The Simpsons. It aired on May 20, 2001.
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. They are as follows:
Homer plays Paul Bunyan, a great burden on local townspeople, as he crushes their houses and consumes all their food. Eventually, the townspeople drug him and drag him out of their town. 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. In his travels with Babe, Homer creates several landmarks, and fought Rodan (which Lisa remarks Paul Bunyan never fought Rodan). Homer later meets Marge, and though she is initially frightened of him, the two fall in...
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