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"Men Behaving Manly"
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Episode Information
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"Men Behaving Manly" is the fourth episode of 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 Greg and Maurice LaMarche.
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 school, the kids get out early, throwing the books out of their bags and Willie runs over them with his tractor. Skinner comes out calling them back but it's too late, while Lisa tastes a piece of Toni Morrison's Beloved. Summer started, and Bart and Lisa start it differenttly. Lisa by writing welcome notes to new teachers, and Bart playing on his VR headset, staying in his room for a week concerning his parents, but Homer soon joins him instead of taking him out. Marge intervenes and asks Homer to take him outside on some activity, and he chooses fishing.
On searching for a fishing hole, he finds an ad on his phone and they stop on the couch. Grampa approaches the house to find Ned pumping air in their car tire, and Grampa starts complaining about it being their job. Marge asks Alexa for help for 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 the Man Camp and Boys Camp.
Greg introduces them to the camp and then invites the men to converse with a robot women, but most fail, while Homer starts sense others feeling 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 boys a lession, starting with the bullies reverting their bullying on them, and telling them their problem 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 eyes for the next step toward empaty.
Each one relives their problem in their past, while the kids are invited to build something together. Bart builds a TV and imitates Krusty introducing Itchy and Scratchy, using a racoon and a rat. In town, women are free to make decisions while their men are at camp, having Greg showing them other shows' dad jokes, and the kids help each other form a ladder so they can save Ralph going quickly 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, its all transformed into a women dream, but the men accept it and all hug their women, including Moe with Maya, but gets stopped by his mother, as the 5 years separation they agreed to hasn't ended yet.
