A/N: I decided I wanted to write for The Lorax again, and there are no Simpsons/Lorax crossovers, so I decided to make my own, and the very first Lorax and Simpsons crossover! I hope you all enjoy! - Plus I might do several crossovers between the two series, just depends on if I have any ideas. And if you guys like, feel free to give me ideas, and I will give credit on an author's note in the first chapter - or the one-shot if you want it to be one - before the story/one-shot.
Homer was watching TV, holding a Duff beer that he'd opened, when Marge opened the front door.
"Homer!" She called, holding bags of groceries in her arms as she closed the front door with her foot, "Homer, you'll never believe what I found at the store today!"
"What is it Marge?" Homer complained, slightly upset by the fact that his wife had interrupted his entertainment, "Can't you see that I'm watching TV?"
"Yeah but you gotta see this strange fruit I found!" Marge said as she headed through the living room to get to the kitchen, "It looks like a pear but it's pink!"
"That's great honey." Homer said, obviously uninterested since he didn't really like eating many fruits or vegetables, "I'll eat it when there's nothing else to eat in the house."
Marge murmured in disapproval at this, but she knew her husband really well because she knew him since high school, so she yelled to him, "Homer, get your lazy butt in here and look! Jeez, I didn't say you had to eat any of it!"
"Okay, okay, fine..." Homer said with a roll of his eyes before getting up from the couch and heading into the kitchen, "I'm coming!"
As he entered the kitchen, he noticed the mysterious fruits Marge had mentioned. She was right: they were pink and looked like pears but they weren't pears. Heck, he didn't know what they were!
"The people at the store told me they're a different kind of fruit called a Truffula Fruit, and they only grow in a place called the Truffula Forest!" Marge explained.
"Pfft! What kind of crazy crap is that!? Did Dr. Seuss order a delivery of his made-up fruit to the supermarket?" Homer teased, not believing what Marge said for a minute since he didn't think it was possible and had never heard of such a thing even being possible, "I mean, seriously Marge, when have we had something from a kids' storybook appear here in Springfield?"
"Well, since today!" Marge told him, taking out one of the fruits before handing it to Homer, "They're edible, too!"
"I'll be the judge of that." Homer said, taking the fruit from her, "I'll just have to test it for myself, to see if it isn't fake." Marge just sighed at this as she rolled her eyes.
"Kids, get down here!" She then called to Bart and Lisa from the kitchen, "Your dad's about to test a new type of fruit I found at the grocery store!"
"All right!" Bart said, being the first to come running down the stairs, "Mom's finally forcing Homer to eat his fruits and veggies!"
"No I'm not!" Marge corrected as Bart entered the kitchen, "It's just that your dad decided to test to see if the fruit is the real thing!"
"Mom, unless it's a fruit not from a fictional source it is the real thing." Lisa stated as she also entered the kitchen.
"Well it smells different from a pear..." Homer said, stroking his chin with his hand after having sniffed the fruit, "Now for the taste test." He then bit into the fruit as Lisa said, albeit too late, "Dad, NO!"
Homer's eyes widened as he chewed the fruit, but after he swallowed it his eyelids drooped halfway and he said, "Cotton candy..." before beginning to drool.
"Wait, let me try." Marge said, taking the fruit from Homer before taking a bite herself, her eyes also widening. "Homer's right!" She said as she looked down at the pear-shaped fruit in her hand, "It does taste like cotton candy! ...Mixed with a little bit of pear flavor, of course."
"No way, let me try!" Bart said in disbelief, taking the fruit from his mother. As he took a bite, his eyes widened just like his parents' had, and he said, "Oh my god..."
"My turn!" Lisa said, grabbing the fruit from Bart and staring at it for a second before hesitantly taking a bite.
Her eyes instantly widened as she tasted the flavor, but as she was about to tell her parents that she loved the flavor, she noticed something odd was happening: the scenery around her was changing as if she were being teleported to a different place, and the kitchen scenery was changing to that of...a colorful forest?
