Apocalypse Cow - Revision history

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 == Synopsis ==
-{{Desc|When [[Bart]] joins the [[4-H]] Club, he unexpectedly comes to care for a cow named {{ap|Lou|Apocalypse Cow}}. But when Bart finds out that Lou has been sold to a slaughterhouse, he saves him and delivers him to [[Mary Spuckler|Mary]], a fellow 4-H Club member. However, [[Cletus Spuckler|Mary's father]] mistakenly believes Bart is giving them the cow as a dowry for Mary's hand in marriage.}}
+{{Synopsis|When [[Bart]] joins the [[4-H]] Club, he unexpectedly comes to care for a cow named {{ap|Lou|Apocalypse Cow}}. But when Bart finds out that Lou has been sold to a slaughterhouse, he saves him and delivers him to [[Mary Spuckler|Mary]], a fellow 4-H Club member. However, [[Cletus Spuckler|Mary's father]] mistakenly believes Bart is giving them the cow as a dowry for Mary's hand in marriage.}}
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 == Reception ==
-This episode gathered 7.69 million viewers. This episode cemented FOX in second position at 8:00, sitting only behind ''{{W|Extreme Makeover: Home Edition}}'' and in front of ''{{W2|Big Brother|American TV series}}'' and ''{{W|Monk}}''.<ref>[http://www.simpsonschannel.com/2008/04/ratings-apocalypse-cow/ Simpsons Channel.com - Ratings: Apocalypse Cow]</ref>
+This episode gathered 7.69 million viewers. This episode cemented FOX in second position at 8:00, sitting only behind ''{{W|Extreme Makeover: Home Edition}}'' and in front of ''{{W2|Big Brother|American TV series}}'' and ''{{W2|Monk|TV series}}''.<ref>[http://www.simpsonschannel.com/2008/04/ratings-apocalypse-cow/ Simpsons Channel.com - Ratings: Apocalypse Cow]</ref>
 "Apocalypse Cow" won the [[2009]] Writers Guild of America award in Animation.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000710/2009/1/ IMDb - "Writers Guild of America, USA 2009 Awards"]</ref>

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 == Reception ==
-This episode gathered 7.69 million viewers. This episode cemented FOX in second position at 8:00, sitting only behind ''{{W|Extreme Makeover: Home Edition}}'' and in front of ''{{W|Big Brother}}'' and ''{{W|Monk}}''.<ref>[http://www.simpsonschannel.com/2008/04/ratings-apocalypse-cow/ Simpsons Channel.com - Ratings: Apocalypse Cow]</ref>
+This episode gathered 7.69 million viewers. This episode cemented FOX in second position at 8:00, sitting only behind ''{{W|Extreme Makeover: Home Edition}}'' and in front of ''{{W2|Big Brother|American TV series}}'' and ''{{W|Monk}}''.<ref>[http://www.simpsonschannel.com/2008/04/ratings-apocalypse-cow/ Simpsons Channel.com - Ratings: Apocalypse Cow]</ref>
 "Apocalypse Cow" won the [[2009]] Writers Guild of America award in Animation.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000710/2009/1/ IMDb - "Writers Guild of America, USA 2009 Awards"]</ref>

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-"'''Apocalypse Cow'''" is the seventeenth episode of [[season 19]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the four hundred seventeenth episode overall. It originally aired on April 27, [[2008]]. The episode was written by [[Jeff Westbrook]] and directed by [[Nancy Kruse]]. It guest stars [[Zooey Deschanel]] as [[Mary Spuckler]].
+"'''Apocalypse Cow'''" is the seventeenth episode of [[Season 19|broadcast season 19]] of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' and the four hundred seventeenth episode overall. It originally aired on April 27, [[2008]]. The episode was written by [[Jeff Westbrook]] and directed by [[Nancy Kruse]]. It guest stars [[Zooey Deschanel]] as [[Mary Spuckler]].
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 == Synopsis ==
-{{Desc|When [[Bart]] joins the [[4-H]] Club, he unexpectedly falls in love with a cow named {{ap|Lou|Apocalypse Cow}}. But when Bart finds out that Lou has been sold to a slaughterhouse, he becomes determined to save him. Bart and [[Lisa]] free Lou from the slaughterhouse, and Bart gives the cow to [[Mary Spuckler|Mary]], a fellow 4-H Club member. However, Mary's father mistakenly believes Bart is giving them the cow as a dowry for Mary's hand in marriage. When Homer and Marge hear of Bart's engagement, they devise a plan to save Lou and free Bart from his marriage.}}
+{{Desc|When [[Bart]] joins the [[4-H]] Club, he unexpectedly comes to care for a cow named {{ap|Lou|Apocalypse Cow}}. But when Bart finds out that Lou has been sold to a slaughterhouse, he saves him and delivers him to [[Mary Spuckler|Mary]], a fellow 4-H Club member. However, [[Cletus Spuckler|Mary's father]] mistakenly believes Bart is giving them the cow as a dowry for Mary's hand in marriage.}}
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 == Plot ==
-[[File:Apocalypse Cow Promo Card 2.jpg|thumb|left|Alternate promo image]]
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 [[File:Lou the cow.png|thumb|left|Bart feeding Lou.]]
 Homer and Bart go out to [[Shelbyville]] to refill their bean bag chairs, and they see [[Martin]] plowing fields for the 4-H club. When Homer realizes no parent participation is involved he immediately signs Bart up. When [[Bart]] joins 4-H, there is a contest to raise a cow, and at the end of the summer the best cow wins a ribbon. Bart is left with the runt, while Ralph gets a cardboard cutout, and is totally unaware of how to raise a cow, but with the help of [[Mary Spuckler|Mary]], one of [[Cletus]]'s kids, they name him {{ap|Lou|Apocalypse Cow}}, and raise him to be very big. Eventually Lou wins the contest, but Bart doesn't realize all that means is he'll get slaughtered first. Once Lou is sent off to be slaughtered, Lisa becomes to see Bart's affection for Lou, and tries to trick him into being a vegetarian by playing mooing sounds on a CD. However it doesn't work, and instead she helps him steal Lou from the compound.

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 |couchgag=A story is told through pictures on a medieval style scroll: The Flanders clan captures the Simpsons' couch and the Simpson clan crosses the open waters to do battle with the Flanders and take back their couch. The family rests triumphantly on their couch as Ned Flanders lays dismembered on the floor before them. This is an allusion to the Bayeux Tapestry, a 50 cm by 70 m embroidered cloth which explains the events leading up to the 1066 Norman invasion of England.
 |guests=[[Zooey Deschanel]] as [[Mary Spuckler]]
-|showrunner=[[Al Jean]]
+|showrunner1= Al Jean
 |writer= [[Jeff Westbrook]]
 |director= [[Nancy Kruse]]

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 This episode gathered 7.69 million viewers. This episode cemented FOX in second position at 8:00, sitting only behind ''{{W|Extreme Makeover: Home Edition}}'' and in front of ''{{W|Big Brother}}'' and ''{{W|Monk}}''.<ref>[http://www.simpsonschannel.com/2008/04/ratings-apocalypse-cow/ Simpsons Channel.com - Ratings: Apocalypse Cow]</ref>
-"Apocalypse Cow" won the [[2009]] Writers Guild of America award in Animation.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000710/2009/1/IMDb - "Writers Guild of America, USA 2009 Awards"]</ref>
+"Apocalypse Cow" won the [[2009]] Writers Guild of America award in Animation.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0000710/2009/1/ IMDb - "Writers Guild of America, USA 2009 Awards"]</ref>
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