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Bart wins a radio contest which allows him to choose between two prizes: $10,000 or an elephant. Bart picks the elephant and names him Stampy. Homer and Marge decide to give the elephant away because he cost to much to feed, so Bart and Stampy run away together. Read full recap »

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Writers:: John Swartzwelder

Director:: Jim Reardon

Stars:: Yeardley Smith (Lisa Simpson); Dan Castellaneta (Homer Simpson, Grampa Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, and others); Hank Azaria (Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Moe Szyslak, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Lou, and others); Harry Shearer (Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner, Waylon Smithers, Kent Brockman, and others); Nancy Cartwright (Bart Simpson, Nelson Muntz, Ralph Wiggum, Todd Flanders, and others); Julie Kavner (Marge Simpson, Patty Bouvier, and Selma Bouvier)

Recurring Role:: Maggie Roswell (Maude Flanders, Helen Lovejoy, Miss Hoover, and others); Pamela Hayden (Milhouse Van Houten, Rod Flanders, Jimbo Jones, and others)

When Chief Wiggum nonchalantly answers distress phone calls late in the episode, he says "Yeah�right, and I'm Edward G. Robinson" sarcastically. Hank Azaria, the voice of Wiggum and many other residents of Springfield, specifically based Wiggum's voice on that of Robinson. edit »
The newspaper headline reads: "KBBL cheats straight A Student" edit »
According to Time Magazine, Springfield Tar Pits is ''The Best In Tar Entertainment''. edit »
Signs at the Democratic Convention: "We Hate Life And Ourselves" and "We Can't Govern" edit »
When Bill and Marty talk to Bart at the radio station, Homer can be seen in the next room listening to music. edit »

This episode won a 1994 EMA Award for TV Comedy. edit »
First Appearance: Cletus Del Roy Spuckler edit »
Blackboard Joke: Organ transplants are best left up to the professionals.
Couch Gag: The room is darkened, only showing five pairs of eyes. The light is turned on and the family come in and retrieve their eyes. edit »

Marge: (referring to Stampy) Homer... it looks like it could gore.
Homer: (chuckles) It does look like Al Gore. edit »
Moe: Hey Clinton, get back to work!
Bill Clinton: Bite me. edit »
Blackheart: All right, I'll be back in the morning to pick up Stampy.
Homer: Here's the keys.
Blackheart: Elephants don't have keys.
Homer: Well, I'll just keep these then. edit »
Lisa: Dad, I think he's an ivory dealer! His boots are ivory, his hat is ivory, and I'm pretty sure that check is ivory.
Homer: Lisa, a guy who's got lots of ivory is less likely to hurt Stampy than a guy whose ivory supplies are low. edit »
Homer: Look at this, Marge! $58 and all of it profit! I'm the smartest businessman in the world.
Marge: Stampy's food bill today was $300.
Homer: Marge, please, don't humiliate me in front of the money. edit »

The Wizard of Oz
The scene where Patty and Selma are sitting in their chairs and are up in the air (in the tornado), is a reference of the tornado scene from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. edit »
White Hunter, Black Heart
The ivory dealer's name, Mr. Blackheart, is an obvious reference to the elephant hunter in the 1990 film White Hunter, Black Heart. edit »
The Sound of Music
Homer, Lisa, and Marge's lines -"D'Oh" "A deer" "A female deer"- are a take-off of the song "Do-Re-Mi" from the 1965 film The Sound of Music. edit »
The Price Is Right
The episode's plot, where Bart insists on the elephant as his prize in a radio call-in contest, is very similar to an actual incident that occurred on the 1950s version of The Price is Right. A contestant had won a grand piano, and as an extra bonus, he was awarded an elephant. Producer Bob Stewart meant for the elephant to symbolize "extra ivory"; the real prize was $4,000 cash. However, the contestant (a Texas farmer) insisted on getting the pacyderm he felt he was due, and � much like the KBBL guys with Bart � Stewart was forced to arrange delivery of an elephant from Kenya. The whole story is related on "The Bill Cullen Homepage" at the More Info link. edit »
Marge: I've got to stop fantasizing about Lee Majors. Ah, one more.
Majors was played the lead role in The Six Million Dollar Man, a sci-fi adventure series from the 1970s. edit »

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Stupendous without a doubt one of the most hilarious episodes in the whole first five years of the show... ...Continue »
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Lisa: bart's gone! i bet it's because of that horrible ivory dealer, dad!
Homer: he took bart too? that wasn't part of our deal blackheart! that wasn't part!

Homer: D'oh!
Lisa: A deer!
Marge: A female deer ...Continue »
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