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“The Call of the Simpsons” should be better than it is. The premise is right there! The Simpsons buy an RV and then get lost in the wilderness. Albert Brooks makes his first appearance on the show as Cowboy Bob. And yet, I have never felt any real strong pull to watch “The Call of the Simpsons.” It’s one of the lesser episodes of the first season of The Simpsons.
It’s simple. The jokes just aren’t there. They don’t make enough out of the family being lost in the woods. The only thing that has any heft to it is Homer being confused for Bigfoot, and mostly I just like the joke about a tabloid reporting Bigfoot likes pork chops with apple sauce. That’s a first-season Homer thing. Cowboy Bob is also not a top-tier Brooks appearance. He’s not Hank Scorpio, you know?
John Swartzwelder wrote “The Call of the Simpsons,” so it’s a surprise it’s such a shrug. No comedy writer bats 1.000. Ah well. He’d do better. The Simpsons would do better. It’s not a bad episode. It’s okay. For The Simpsons, though, simply being okay is lacking.
