High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Simpson Safari" is the seventeenth episode of The Simpsons` twelfth season. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 1, 2001. When the Simpsons run out of food thanks to a bag boy strike, the family finds an old box of Animal Crackers in their attic. In the box is a golden cracker that was part of a contest conducted by the owners of Animal Crackers. Finding out that anyone that found the golden cracker would win a trip to Africa, Homer shows it to the company`s owners, who explain that the contest ended several years ago. When he is injured by one of the box`s sharp corners however, the family is given a free trip to Africa as compensation.