Plot
When Bart is sent home from school with head lice and wearing a burlap sack (as he had his clothes burned to prevent contagion) and Lisa all messed up and without shoes (as a result of being continuously bullied at school), Marge and Homer are accused of being negligent parents. Two Child Protective Services agents arrive at their house and take Bart, Lisa, and Maggie to a foster home—right next door, at Ned Flanders's house.
The kids have to get used to bedtime at seven o'clock with the sunlight still out, and hours of Bible board games. Bart and Lisa hate the Flanders house, but Maggie enjoys being there as she gets more attention from the Flanders than she did with Homer. Meanwhile, Homer and Marge have to attend a special class for bad parents so that they can get their children back.
When Ned finds out that Bart and Lisa were not baptized, he takes it upon himself to give the kids an emergency baptism. When Homer and Marge are declared decent parents, they quickly head for the Springfield River to stop Ned. Just as Ned is about to pour holy water on Bart, Homer shoves Bart over to prevent the water from hitting him. However the water hits Homer but it doesn't have any effect on him. The Simpson family is reunited, and they head home together.
Read more about this topic: Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily
Famous quotes containing the word plot:
“Ends in themselves, my letters plot no change;
They carry nothing dutiable; they won’t
Aspire, astound, establish or estrange.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“James’s great gift, of course, was his ability to tell a plot in shimmering detail with such delicacy of treatment and such fine aloofness—that is, reluctance to engage in any direct grappling with what, in the play or story, had actually “taken place”Mthat his listeners often did not, in the end, know what had, to put it in another way, “gone on.””
—James Thurber (1894–1961)
“But, when to Sin our byast Nature leans,
The careful Devil is still at hand with means;
And providently Pimps for ill desires:
The Good Old Cause, reviv’d, a Plot requires,
Plots, true or false, are necessary things,
To raise up Common-wealths and ruine Kings.”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)