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After getting hot onion rings splashed on him, Homer wins a lawsuit and is given $5000. He is tasked by Marge into putting it into the bank for Lisa's college fund, but his barmates inform him that the banks aren't exactly trustworthy anymore, and they convince to put the money into an online poker account which is, actually, safer. Lisa laments this turns of events, and panics when she sees Bart gambling it on the site. Having lost $60 or so, Lisa shoos Bart away and decides to try and win it back. She does, but also wins an additional $50 to boost her total to $5050. Bart warns Lisa not to get too involved in gambling, but Lisa studies up on the methodologies of it and decides to increase her fund to where she can go to a top notch university. With her methods, and I'm guessing a lot of luck, she's able to increase her fund to well over $300,000. Getting greedy, she plays one more hand where she thinks she's got a full house and goes all in. An avatar posing as Sideshow Bob calls, though, and turns out to have an even better hand. Lisa loses all of her money, and she's devastated. It turns out, though, that it was Bart pretending to be Bob and he acquired all of Lisa's money plus however much more he had to call her all in. However, Bart notes that the website is aware the two are under 18, and restores Lisa's money to its original amount of $5000. Lisa asks why Bart would do this for her, and Bart admits that he does, in fact, care for him a little bit.
Meanwhile, Homer and Marge forget to visit Grampa again, only remembering on a later date. They go to the retirement home to visit him, but they learn that Grampa has gone missing. Searching his room and belongings, Marge finds a coaster for a place called Spiro's, and Homer decides that's enough of a lead to go on. At that place, the owner, Spiro, reveals that Abe worked at the place decades ago as a waiter, but he was also an aspiring songwriter who became intimate with a singer named Rita LaFleur. Odder still, this happened after Mona had left Abe, so a six year old Homer was aware that Abe and Rita were together but unaware of what was really happening, though current Homer has no recollection of this. Homer and Marge quickly locate Rita and visit her. She reveals that Abe had proposed to her for some time, but on the day of the wedding Homer winds up injured and goes to the hospital. There, Rita learns she's been given a gig in Europe, but Abe is aware that clumsy ol' Homer probably won't survive a trip there. Choosing between his new love and his young son, Abe chooses the latter. Abe and Homer see Rita off at the airport before going to a nearby bar to help the both of them forget all about her. In the present, Homer is touched that Abe sacrificed his love life to raise him.
Rita gives them a cologne Abe likes to use, and the two go to the only place left that still sells it. It's at this place where they find Abe working there, and indeed Abe is upset that Homer forget to visit him again, deciding to run away and live somewhere else where his son won't have to forget about visiting anymore. The two promise to visit Abe more often, and the old man relents and goes back to the home where, to his astonishment, Rita is there waiting for him, and the two share one more song on the piano.
Quick Review
This is going to really be a quick review as this episode deserves nothing but.
It was boring. The end.
Final Score: 5.8
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