Plot
The episode is a series of short skits, each showing a brief slice of life in Springfield after Bart and Milhouse wonder if anything interesting happens to Springfield's citizens:
- Bart and Milhouse spit and squirt condiments from a highway overpass onto cars, then go to the Kwik-E-Mart.
- There, Apu leaves his shop for five minutes to briefly attend a party at his brother Sanjay's house.
- Lisa gets gum in her hair and Marge tries to get it out by putting a variety of foods on her head.
- Smithers suffers an allergic reaction to a bee sting while bike riding with Mr. Burns, who makes him pedal the bike to the hospital; however, Mr. Burns is taken inside instead.
- Dr. Nick comes under criticism from the medical board for his unorthodox medical procedures, only to treat Abraham Simpson with an electric light socket, saving his career.
- Moe gets robbed by Snake after Barney gives him $2,000 to pay for a portion of his bar tab.
- Skinner hosts dinner for Superintendent Chalmers and when his roast is burned, he attempts to disguise food from the Krusty Burger as his own cooking, then tries to cover up the kitchen being on fire.
- Homer accidentally traps Maggie in a newspaper vending box, and ends up uprooting the box (with Maggie inside) and placing it in her bedroom.
- The cops debate McDonald's Quarter Pounder vs. Krusty Burgers.
- Bumblebee Man's house is destroyed upon arriving home after a horrible day at work, causing his wife to leave him.
- Snake runs Chief Wiggum over and the two begin to fight. They roll into Herman's shop, who captures them at gun point.
- Reverend Lovejoy urges his dog to use Ned Flanders' lawn as a toilet.
- Various townspeople advise Marge and Lisa on how to remove the gum stuck in Lisa's hair.
- Cletus offers Brandine some shoes he found.
- Milhouse has to use the bathroom in Comic Book Guy's Android's Dungeon and has to purchase a comic book first, but ends up leaving before he can use it. He then goes with his father to Herman's store, there he accidentally knocks him out, saving his father, Snake and Wiggum.
- Lisa gets the gum cut out of her hair, leaving her with a different hairstyle.
- Nelson laughs at Lisa's new haircut, and at an extremely tall man in a small car, who gets out and humiliates him to teach him a lesson.
- Bart and Milhouse conclude that life is interesting in their town after all.
- Lastly, "The Tomfoolery of Professor John Frink" is almost seen, but the episode ends before Frink can begin his story.
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