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| guests = [[Maurice LaMarche]] as Alberto[[Cap'n Crunch]], [[Trix (cereal)|Trix Rabbit]] and [[Toucan Sam]]

"'''Dangerous Curves'''" is the fifth episode of the [[The Simpsons (season 20)|twentieth season]] of the American animated television series ''[[The Simpsons]]''. It first aired on the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox network]] in the [[United States]] on November 9, 2008 and in the United Kingdom on December 7, 2008.<ref name=FF>{{cite news |title=Listings - SIMPSONS, THE on FOX |publisher=The Futon Critic |date=2008-10-17 |url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/listings.aspx?id=20081017fox19 |accessdate=2008-10-17}}</ref> The episode received mixed reviews from television critics.

On the [[Independence Day (United States)|Fourth of July]], the [[Simpson family]] visit a cabin in the woods. While driving there, they pick up hitchhikers [[List of recurring The Simpsons characters#Squeaky-Voiced Teen|Squeaky Voiced Teen]] and his girlfriend, Beatrice. [[Homer Simpson|Homer]] flashes back Twentytwenty years earlier to 19761988, when he and [[Marge Simpson|Marge]] ride their bikes down a highway. While trying to kiss, Homer crashes his bike, forcing them to walk. [[Ned Flanders|Ned]] and [[Maude Flanders]] are driving by, see them and pick them up. Ned and Maude are on their honeymoon after their wedding earlier that day, but Ned warns the other two about potential marital problems in the future.

Back in the present, Homer becomes annoyed with the Squeaky Voiced Teen kissing Beatrice, prompting another flashback to five years earlier in 19822003, where a married Homer and Marge are more stressed. Driving with Marge, [[Patty and Selma]], and getting the usual flak from the latter two, Homer angrily kicks them out of the car, unaware they had the map to their cabin destination. The car runs out of gas and Homer and Marge walk off with a gas can, stopping at a home to use the phone. The owner, Alberto, is having a party, and he invites them in. Marge becomes enraged after seeing Homer flirting with a beautiful woman named Sylvia. Following an argument, Marge accidentally falls into the pool. Homer starts a [[sushi]] fight, and Marge regrets marrying Homer.

In the present, the family drops off the Squeaky-Voiced Teen and Beatrice, and continue to their cabin. In 19761988, Ned barricades unmarried Homer and Marge chastely in separate rooms of the cabin to discourage [[premarital sex]]. In 19822003, Alberto comforts Marge, who leaves the party with him for a private airplane ride, while Homer, seeing them in the sky, drives off with Sylvia. They each decide to spend the night together but end up at the cabinscabin, where Homer sees Marge through the window but does not see Alberto. Upon hearing Homer calling out for Marge, Alberto panics and hides in a trunk just before Homer arrives. Despite his initial misgivings, Homer concludes that he and Marge were both there to recapture the memories of their dating years. On Marge's insistence, Homer pulls the trunk out of the room, where he promptly pushes Sylvia into out of Marge's eyesight. Alberto and Sylvia fall in love in the trunk while Homer and Marge rekindle their love.

Back in 19761988, Ned comforts Homer, who is despondent at Marge's absence the previous night, and encourages him to consider marrying Marge in the future. Taking a walk through the woods with Marge, Homer carves the message "Marge + Homer 4ever" into a tree. In the present, Homer sees this message, and tries to cut it out of the tree to show to Marge as a symbol of their everlasting love. Marge arrives to reassure him but accidentally knocks the tree over a ravine. Homer clings onto the bark and falls down the ravine toward the river below with Marge falling after. They are saved by [[Bart Simpson|Bart]] and [[Lisa Simpson|Lisa]] in their [[pedal car]], which Bart had accidentally driven into the river.

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