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| Not even Linguo's superior grammar correction stands a chance against the mafia. |
The events of a rather eventful day are shown through the perspectives of three different Simpsons.
Homer's Day
Marge tries to treat the family to some oddity for breakfast. As Bart goes off to meet with Milhouse, Homer and Lisa find an excuse to leave the breakfast table. Homer takes a look at Lisa's science project: a robot capable to fixing someones grammar: Linguo. Homer makes a mistake when it corrects his statement about beer, pouring beer into it, and Lisa runs off to fix it. Homer then smells brownies being made, and goes to the kitchen. Marge baked them for after dinner, but as Homer tries to grab a piece as Marge is cutting it up, she accidentally slices Homer's thumb off. Marge tries to call 911, but when Chief Wiggum mistakes the accident as attempted murder, Marge gives them the fake address of 123 Fake St. to keep the police off her back.
After Homer gets his thumb back from the dog, who had stolen it, Marge and Homer quickly go to Dr. Hibbert's to have it reattached. Upon learning its too expensive (and Hibbert's suggestion to cut off the other thumb for symmetry's sake falling on deaf ears), the two try to go to Dr. Nick's instead. However, Marge gets distracted and rams the car into Rainier Wolfcastle's car. As Wolfcastle goes back to destroy Marge's car in a fit of rage, Homer and Marge sneak away and drive off in Wolfcastle's car.
With the ice maintaining the thumb melting, the two stop off at the nearest place to get more: Moe's. Though Homer is able to get the thumb into pickle brine which works apparently, Homer gets sidetracked at Moe's and gets super drunk. When he remembers about the thumb, he goes back outside but finds Marge gone. He hitchhikes a ride from Cletus to Dr. Nicks, but finds Nick's office on fire, Nick flabbergasted that "inflammable" means flammable. Just then, Cletus' truck is stolen, and Homer is left without hope. As he's about to say goodbye to his thumb, an explosion occurs nearby, and the head of Linguo falls right next to Homer.
Lisa's Day
After Homer put beer in Linguo, Lisa goes back to her room to fix it. The delay causes her to miss the bus, with Martin Prince eager to get a shoo in science fair victory with Lisa absent. Determined to make the fair, Lisa goes get her bike, but finds it missing. She tries to get a ride from Marge, but she's left with Homer to Dr. Hibbert's. Lisa decides to just run to school, but nearly gets run over by a limo driven by Krusty's monkey Mr. Teeny. To make up for it, Krusty has Teeny drive Lisa to school (after Wiggum fails to get directions to 123 Fake St. from Teeny), but Teeny makes a mistake and takes Lisa to West Springfield Elementary instead, a mistake Lisa doesn't learn until its too late. On her way out, Lisa befriends a young boy who shares her intellect and loneliness, and the two spend hours just twirling around. Lisa realizes the time and makes her bitter farewell with the boy she's come to like.
Running around again, Lisa winds up at Moe's. Surprised Homer isn't there, she finds Chief Wiggum monitoring a sting operation, but unwittingly blows it by letting the mafia know his informant is wearing a wire. Escaping before Wiggum can offer her the job of informant, Lisa escapes from the back just as Homer comes in from the front looking for ice. She finds Marge, and after Marge realizes Homer has gone off on a tangent, decides to take Lisa to school. The car runs out of gas, though, but the two are able to secretly hitch a ride on the back of a truck, Cletus'. As the truck stops at Dr. Nicks, and Homer and Cletus check it out, Marge decides to steal this car as well and takes off. It looks like Lisa is about to get to school just before the day ends, but Bart pops out of a manhole, and Marge might not be able to stop in time.
Bart's Day
Bart meets Milhouse at the front door, who reveals to Bart he's found something pretty darn amazing. In the backyard, Bart has Milhouse take Lisa's bike to get to where they need to reach faster. Milhouse takes Bart to a cave where he goes to cry, where they are several burlap sacks full of fireworks. The two go around town setting off fireworks everywhere. An attempt to create a rocket-wheeled bike backfires, and the wheels flies off - ultimately to Dr. Nick's office which sets off inflammable ether. As the two continue wandering with their fireworks, they hear police nearby and hide in the nearest building... located at 123 Fake St. Wiggum and pals bust in and find the two boys with the fireworks. With Milhouse wanting not to become currency in prison, Wiggum makes a deal with them to find out who is smuggling those fireworks in.
The boys return to the cave, with Bart wired up. They learn its Fat Tony and the mafia behind the illegal fireworks, but Wiggum for some reason blows their cover, and the mafia go in to kill the two. Bart is able to set off a small firework and the two make their escape into the cave. They find a way up, at a manhole, but just as Bart surfaces, Marge is about to run him over. She stops just in time, only giving Bart a small knock on the head, but the boys continue their escape of the mob. Marge sees this and chases after them, but as the boys are walled off, Marge desperately tosses Lisa's Linguo at the mob. As the mob loudly ponder what the thing is, Linguo begins correcting their broken English. However, there is just too much to correct, and Linguo overloads, overheating into sparks that sets off some fireworks Bart had run off with nearby, causing an explosion. The explosion sends Linguo's head flying to where Homer was, and the mafia mostly defeated. The police come in to arrest the mafia and Homer meets back up with the family.
However, Homer's thumb is all but gone and Lisa no longer has a science fair project. Fat Tony overhears the dilemma and decides to help out. At the school, Lisa reveals her new science project which is mostly just Legs sewing Homer's thumb back on, and successfully at that. Homer's thumb is saved, Lisa gets first prize, and everything turns out okay regardless of the absurdity of it all.
Quick Review
I really liked how this episode is set up, and the various links between the events that occurred in one act or the other in an "oh that makes sense" sort of fashion. Things like 123 Fake St. being a real address and Dr. Nick's confusion over the word "inflammable" really add a nice touch to the episode as well. Its one of the season's best.
Final Score: 8.4
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