The Simpsons/Bart Gets an Elephant

Bart Gets an Elephant
Season 5, Episode 17
Airdate	March 31, 1994
Production Number	1F15
Written by	John Swartzwelder
Directed by	Jim Reardon
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The Simpsons — Season Five

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Bart Gets an Elephant is the seventeenth episode of the fifth season of The Simpsons, and the ninety-eighth episode overall.

The episode centers on Bart winning a radio contest choosing a full-grown elephant (intended as a gag prize) instead of a large cash prize, and the fallout that results as the elephant causes havoc through Springfield.

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Notes

Title Sequence

• Blackboard: "Organ transplants are best left to the professionals."
• Couch Gag: Five sets of eyes run into the living room and take their places. The lights come on and the eye-less Simpsons run in, take their seats and lean forward so they can place their eyes in their eye sockets.

Trivia

Allusions and References

• The Price Is Right: A contestant from the 1950s version was told he had won an elephant as a bonus prize for being the closest bidder on a grand piano; he was then told he could take its value – $4,000 – in cash, but the contestant insisted on the elephant. After legal threats, Goodson-Todman Productions arranged to deliver an elephant to the contestant's home. The same situation arises with Bart when he wins a radio call-in contest and the station relents only after a huge uproar in the community.
• Voice tracking: The future of radio is predicted when the corporate owners of KBBL Radio threaten morning personalities Bill and Marty with dismissal, and that they would be replaced by a robotic disc jockey machine: live on-air talent in local markets being replaced by voice tracking, sometimes recorded in a different city hundreds of miles away.

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