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{{Episode
|name= Men Behaving Manly
|image= Men Behaving Manly promo 6.png
|caption= 
|number= 794
|season= 37
|snumber= 4
|prodcode= [[Production season 36ABF|36ABF12]]
|airdate= October 26, [[2025]]
|titlescreen= The [[three-eyed crow]] flies across the screen.
|guests= [[Albert Brooks]] as {{ap|Greg|Men Behaving Manly}}<br>[[Maurice LaMarche]] as the [[Fred Flintstone parody]]
|showrunner= Al Jean
|writer= [[John Frink]]
|director= [[Steven Dean Moore]]
}}

'''"Men Behaving Manly"''' is the fourth episode of [[Season 37|broadcast season 37]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the seven hundred ninety-fourth episode overall. It originally aired on October 26, [[2025]]. The episode was written by [[John Frink]] and directed by [[Steven Dean Moore]]. It guest stars [[Albert Brooks]] as {{ap|Greg|Men Behaving Manly}} and [[Maurice LaMarche]] as the [[Fred Flintstone parody]].

== Synopsis ==
{{Synopsis|Springfield's men are in crisis. [[Marge]] turns to a [[Man Camp]] to save the men of Springfield from themselves.}}

== Plot ==
At the last day of [[Springfield Elementary School|school]], the kids get out early, throwing their books out of their bags, and [[Willie]] runs over them with his [[Willy|tractor]]. [[Skinner]] comes out calling them back, but it's too late, while [[Lisa]] tastes a piece of [[Toni Morrison]]'s ''[[Beloved]]''. Summer starts, and [[Bart]] and Lisa begin it differently, Lisa by writing welcome notes to new teachers, and Bart by playing on his VR headset, staying in his room for a week, which concerns his parents. However, [[Homer]] soon joins him instead of taking him out. [[Marge]] intervenes and asks Homer to take Bart outside for some activity, and he chooses fishing.

While searching for a fishing hole, Homer finds an ad on his phone, and they stop on the couch. [[Grampa]] approaches the house to find [[Ned]] pumping air into their car tire, and Grampa starts complaining about it being their job. Marge asks [[Amazon Alexa|Alexa]] for help with an emotional emergency, but it calls 911 instead. After some insisting, the real Alexa behind it suggests to her and other women in town to send their men to a weekend at [[Man Camp]] and [[Boys Camp]].

{{ap|Greg|Men Behaving Manly}} introduces them to the camp and then invites the men to converse with a robot woman, but most fail, while Homer starts to sense others' feelings but fails to give a hug to Greg. For the others, Greg invites [[Coach Krupt]] to teach them how to deal with it without being slapped.

At the Boys Camp, Greg starts teaching the boys a lesson, beginning with the bullies having their bullying turned on them, and telling them their problems started with cellphones. However, he receives a phone call from his mom that takes forever to end. Back at Man Camp, he uses the talking stick, where they start telling Homer his problems, and after helping him, he tells them to stare into each other's eyes for the next step toward empathy.

Each one relives their problems from the past, while the kids are invited to build something together. Bart builds a TV and imitates [[Krusty]] introducing [[Itchy]] and [[Scratchy]], using a raccoon and a rat. In town, women are free to make decisions while their men are at camp, with Greg showing them dad jokes from other shows, and the kids helping each other form a ladder so they can save [[Ralph]] as he quickly goes down the stream.

At the end, around the campfire, their last test is to kill their dinner, a duck, but when Homer picks it up instead of killing it, Greg tells them that kindness is the right answer and declares them all men. Back in town, it's all transformed into a women's dream, but the men accept it and all hug their women, including [[Moe]] with [[Maya]], but he's stopped by his [[Moe Szyslak's mother|mother]], as the five-year separation they agreed to hasn't ended yet.

== Production ==
Since January of 2026, all mentions of Maya and the final scene of Maya and Moe together are cut from the [[Disney+]] release of the episode.<ref>[https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/play/e6fd1200-f426-4a7e-876d-eea3dbb0300d Disney+ - "The Simpsons - Men Behaving Manly"]</ref>

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