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| Seeing a guy cower in a field of toilets, it just takes away your will to maul. |
Its mother's day, and Homer learns that he and Bart 'made' the same present for Marge. Homer goes out to buy Marge a new present, but can't find anything until Patty and Selma of all people help him find a present: a "Carnival Kitchen", which provides the culinary delights of a carnival (deep fry, cotton candy, and caramel). Marge loves the present, and everyone loves making stuff from the machine. That night, though, Homer sneaks into the kitchen and goes massively overboard, creating a massive ball of deep fried, caramel-soaked cotton candy. Homer and the kids snack on it for awhile, but as Homer takes it around with him it collects dirt, ants, and other unsanitary elements, and Homer is eventually forced to throw it away. He goes to the garbage dump to do so, but while there he's attacked by a bear.
That night, a tattered Homer returns home unwilling to talk about what happened. However, the news shows a video of Homer cowering rather pathetically to the bear, as shot by Grant Connor, a hunter. News of Homer's cowardice quickly spreads, and Homer's newfound arktophobia only worsens, even becoming afraid of popular advertising icon bears. Grampa smacks Homer out of it, and tells Homer that in order to overcome his fear of bears, he needs to find the bear that scared him and beat the tar out of it. Homer finds Connor and gets help from him on how to find and fight the bear, given a tracking device as Connor had put a tag on the bear previously somehow. Further, Homer designs some makeshift armor for himself, without an ass plate in case he gets a little too spooked. Marge pleads with Homer to not do this, but the next morning Homer sneaks out with Lenny, Carl and Bart to go find the bear.
Homer's armor makes Homer pretty sweaty, so he goes to the river to clean himself, Bart telling him that the radar they have isn't picking up anything. However, the batteries in the device have been removed, and an armorless Homer is attacked by the bear yet again, this time being dragged to a cave. Marge gets a hold of Connor and they go out to find Homer and the bear. In the cave, Homer notices that the bear is in pain from the tag Connor put on it, and promptly removes it. The bear is thankful, and the two now become friends, going out Yogi Bear style to steal picnic food and such. Homer learns that he's been presumed mauled by the bear and that the bear now has a bounty on it, and decides to help the bear make its way to a nearby wildlife refuge. However, the path of the refuge is littered with hunters hired by Connor to take the bear out. Homer comes up with a plan: he puts the bear in his armor, which at first makes the hunters believe the bear to be Homer, but then also protects him from the gunfire, the hunters unable to hit the bear in the creases inbetween the plating. The bear makes it to the refuge, quickly gaining an enemy in an elephant, and Marge is proud that Homer was able to save the same bear he had developed a fear of.
Quick Review
This was a pretty good episode, I felt. Homer's fear of bears in the middle portion of the episode led to a good number of quality gags, which made it the strongest portion of the episode. The latter portion of the episode slowed down the comedy a bit, though Homer's adventures with the bear had its moments. It all works out to be a quality episode.
Final Score: 8.1
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