High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Bart Gets an Elephant" is the seventeenth episode of The Simpsons` fifth season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 31, 1994. In the episode, Bart wins a radio contest and is awarded an elephant named Stampy. After Stampy wrecks the Simpsons` house and eats all the food, Homer decides to sell Stampy to an ivory dealer. Bart runs away with Stampy to save his pet, but the family finds the two at a museum exhibit, where Homer falls into a tar pit. Homer is saved by Stampy, and so gives the elephant away to an animal refuge instead.