Lisa: Yum! I have a couple of jumbo corn dogs, please.
% Back to the front seats, where we see that Marge is also reading a
% magazine.
Homer: No, you little fools. We're in another scenic view point.
Lisa: Oh.
Homer: Everybody out of the car.
% No reaction.
Now!
% A mad dash for the door. Everybody hops out and stretches. (Maggie
% stretches too far and falls over.) Everybody except Bart, who leans
% against the car reading his comic book. Homer walks over, snatches
% the comic book...
(grabs Bart's comic) Gimme that!
% ... and tosses it over the cliff. Bart watches it sail into the
% river below.
B: [disappointed] Great. Now I'll <never> know what happened.
% Marge and the girls discover a sign that reads ``Echo Canyon''
% Marge and the girls discover a sign that reads ``Echo Canyon''.
Marge: Oh, look, children. This canyon is famous for it's echo.
Homer: Well, what do you know.
Marge: Let's take turns yelling into canyon. Lisa, you start.
Lisa: Okay. (then starts) Boooooorrrinnnnng!
% Her voice echoes through the canyon.
Homer: Lisa!
% Maggie tugs on Homer's pant leg. Homer looks up and sees Bart
% carefully balanced atop a huge boulder at the top of a nearby hill.
Bart: (stands on a boulder) Cool, man.
Homer: Bart!
Bart: Whoa.
% ... and falls off the boulder, sending it crashing (*thud*) (*thud*)
% down the hill towards the car.
Homer: (screams)
% The boulder reaches the bottom of the hill and luckily bounces right
% over the family car.
Homer: Phew. Why you little! (starts chasing Bart) Bart! (echo three times)
Bart: What? (echo three times)
Homer: I'm going to kill you! (echo three times)
Bart: Don't have a cow, Homer. (echo three times)
% Marge and the girls watch from the scenic viewpoint.
M: That is a remarkable echo.
L: [not excited] Whatever you say, Mom.
% Lisa and Maggie produce their magazines and resume reading.
% Marge does the same.
%
% [End of Act One. Time: 1:07]
