Plot
Marge and Homer go to Parent Night at Springfield Elementary School. Though Ms. Hoover tells Homer that Lisa is doing well, Ms. Krabappel tells Marge that Bart is continually causing trouble. Urging Homer and Marge to enforce stronger discipline on Bart, with the idea that he could grow up to become a Supreme Court Justice if he turns his life around, the two return home to find Bart has stolen and broken Grampa's false teeth. Bart is punished and is sent up to his room without dinner as punishment, but eventually Homer sneaks and brings him some food, making Bart promise to behave. However, Bart continues to get in trouble, and Homer's attempts to discipline him fail. Eventually he promises Marge to make the next punishment stick.
It is announced that there will be an Itchy & Scratchy Movie and in anticipation, Bart buys himself a ticket. Later on, Bart is left to babysit for Maggie and he neglects to watch her, leaving her to take Homer's car for a joyride and crash into the wall of Springfield Prison, releasing the prisoners. Homer becomes furious and angrily blames Bart and begins punishing him by banning him from ever seeing The Itchy & Scratchy Movie. Homer takes Bart's ticket to the movie and tears it up in pieces so that he is forbidden to see the movie. Bart begs to be given a different punishment but Homer refuses. After the film's release, Bart becomes angry and sad of everyone who has been able to see it. Two months later, the film is still being shown in theaters as Marge and Lisa beg Homer to change his mind, Marge claiming he has been punished enough. However, Homer still refuses. Bart attempts secretly to watch the film by paying for a ticket, but Homer has already instructed the staff of the movie theaters not to sell any tickets to Bart because of the punishment he made. Eventually, the film is removed from theaters and Bart tells Homer that he won, to which Homer replies by saying that they both won, by using his punishment.
40 years have passed (2032), Bart, now Chief Justice of the United States, and Homer the Senior Citizen are walking down the street and discover that the film is back in the local theater as a nostalgic piece, and as a re-release. Homer decides that Bart has learned his lesson and the two watch the movie happily together.
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