"The Wettest Stories Ever Told" is the eighteenth episode of the seventeenth season of the American animated television series ''

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''. It originally aired on the

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in the United States on April 23, 2006.

Plot

When the Simpsons' plans for an outing at the Frying Dutchman turns into a disaster due to an uncooperative octopus, the family tells three nautically themed stories.

Mayflower Madman

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's story,

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, Lisa and a widowed Marge board the ''

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'' to head for the new world.

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, fleeing from the police, boards the ship and hides in a barrel. Homer is immediately attracted to Marge, however, Moe is instantly jealous of their friendship. Moe takes Homer down to the storage room to play a drinking game. Homer and the crew get drunk, and Moe claims that Homer is responsible, leading Captain " Flandish" (

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) and

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to place him in a stock. A storm approaches, and Flandish is knocked unconscious. Homer volunteers to take his place, and leads them safely out of the storm. Homer and Marge get together, and the members of the Mayflower meet the

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and join them for the first

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feast.

The Whine-Bar Sea

In Bart's story, the

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sets sail from England in 1789, commanded by Captain Bligh (

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). During the voyage, Bligh severely mistreats his crew. Willie warns him of a mutiny if he continues, but Bligh ignores him. They arrive in

Tahiti Tahiti (; Tahitian ; ; previously also known as Otaheite) is the largest island of the Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia. It is located in the central part of the Pacific Ocean and the nearest major landmass is Austra ...

, (where Homer and Marge are the rulers of the island) and have a wonderful time until it is time to leave. Bligh continues to abuse the crew, leading First Mate Bart Christian, to mutiny, sending Bligh and Willie off in a

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. Bart, as the new Captain, orders the crews to set sail for Tahiti, but after throwing away the ship's

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, they end up in

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Watership D'ohn (aka, The Neptune Adventure)

Homer tells the final story, a parody of the 1972 film '' The Poseidon Adventure'',https://dvdverdict.com/6202-2/ taking place on the luxury liner S.S. ''Neptune'' on New Year's Eve during the 1970s. At midnight, Captain Burns fails to notice a massive

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, which hits the bridge, capsizing the ship and killing most of the passengers. Led by

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, the survivors (which include the Simpsons, Lenny, Carl, Sideshow Mel, Comic Book Guy and the Old Jewish Man) decide to climb up the decks to the

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, during which Lenny falls to his death, saying that it is "too confusing" to carry on. Comic Book Guy swims through a flooded deck to help the others get to the engine room, but he has a

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and drowns. The group makes it to the engine room, and are rescued, but Sideshow Mel is killed when he is accidentally set on fire by one of the rescue crew welding a hole in the ship. Once outside the ship, the survivors encounter the

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of the ''Bounty'' crew who are still trying to get back to

Reception

In its original airing, the episode was watched by 7 million viewers, the lowest ratings of season 17.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wettest Stories Ever Told, The The Simpsons (season 17) episodes 2006 American television episodes HMS Bounty in fiction Fiction set in the 1970s Television episodes set in Tahiti