Plot
Principal Skinner closes school the day before spring break and sends the children on a "go to work with your parents day" in order to take a trip to Hong Kong. Bart very reluctantly goes to the DMV with his aunts Patty and Selma, and Lisa goes to the nuclear power plant with Homer, where she makes his work day fun. At the DMV, Bart makes himself a fake driver's license, which he, Nelson, Martin, and Milhouse use to hire a rental car with $600 Martin won in the stockmarket. The boys tell their parents they are going to attend the "National Grammar Rodeo" in Canada, but secretly take the rented car for a road trip to Knoxville, Tennessee after finding a brochure for the city's World's Fair. During the car ride chaos ensues as they stop to see Nelson's favorite singer Andy Williams and Nelson later manages to drive a canadian family traveling to Cape Canaveral back to Winnipeg.
In Knoxville, however, they find out that the fair was held fourteen years earlier, and that its featured attraction, the Sunsphere, is now being used as a warehouse for a wigshop. The boys' car soon gets destroyed by the Sunsphere being toppled by a rock Nelson threw, and they are stranded without any money or transportation. They sign up as couriers and then go to Hong Kong. Bart places a collect call to Lisa, who has spent the entire spring break with Homer at work, to ask her for advice. Lisa obtains Homer's promise that he will not get upset and she reveals Bart's predicament (causing Homer to yell profanities in his safety helmet.) To get Bart home, Homer contacts a power station close to the boys' location, and orders a new command module for the power plant (after spilling soda over the current one) and ships it via courier from Knoxville, with Milhouse, Nelson, and Martin stowed away inside the crate and Bart as the courier.
The ending credits begin with Marge getting phone calls from Principal Skinner (who saw Bart deliver human eyes in Hong Kong), the Tennessee State Police (who report that they found Bart's crushed rental car), and the courier office (who need Bart to deliver human kidneys to Amsterdam).
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